CAS AR 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Turkana Boy, Acheulean, Baikonur Cosmodrome Site 45
7 Jan 2017
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Allows you to run away form animals that want to eat you. Allows you to opportunistically scavenge for food: brain size. Measured in cm, called cranial capacity (cc) Humans have 400-500 cc: use of tools, subsistence (hunting vs. scavenging; eating meat, etc. , social implications (hunting vs. scavenging; eating meat; social grouping, interaction; learning language, sexuality, culture. Charles darwin: origin of species and descent of man and selection in relation to sex dived into who humans are most related to. Africa where earliest hominid remains have been found. Origin of homo sapiens 100-200 thousand years ago (kya) Two major migrations: homo erectus out of africa to middle east, homo sapiens out of africa to other parts of the world. Matuyama reversal 2. 48 mya- 730 kya: pleistocene 1. 89 mya 10 kya. Upper, middle, and lower pleistocene (lower is older than upper: holocene. Archaeological area (what we"ll focus on today: upper paleolithic (newest) Clear regional differentiation (cultures: middle paleolithic (middle)
